- Levina.
During the
Lyttian War in 220 BC the
Gortynians were
divided by
civil strife. The
elder Gortynians remained loyal to
their traditional ally Knossos...
-
during the
Minoan period. In the year 220 BC,
Matala was
occupied by the
Gortynians, and
during the
Roman period,
Matala became the port of Gortys. It has...
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civil war
broke out in the city. The
elder Gortynians remained loyal to Knossos,
while the
younger Gortynians favoured the Lyttians.
Taken by
surprise by...
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Around the end of the 3rd
century BCE,
Phaistos was destro**** by the
Gortynians and
since then has not been
present in the
history of Crete.
Scotia Aphrodite...
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Ships in the
Iliad as "well-peopled cities." The city
belonged to the
Gortynians.
Earlier it was
thought that the
reading Rhythimne (Ῥυθίμνη) in the entry...
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after the fall of Knossos. At the
beginning of the 4th
century BC, the
Gortynians established a
sanctuary of
Asclepius at the harbour. An
earthquake in...
- the
command of the
forces of Gortyna. In 197 BC, five
hundred of the
Gortynians,
under their commander, Cydas,
which seems to have been a
common name...
-
though Paul
Cartledge believes that, like
their Athenian (and
unlike their Gortynian) counterparts, it was the
responsibility of the
kurios to
arrange a Spartan...
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Polybius the
Lycastian district was
afterwards wrested from
Knossos by the
Gortynians, who gave it to the
neighbouring town of Rhaucus. Its site is located...
- the ****enic
League in
battles against Aetolia,
Sparta and Elis. The
Gortynians occupy Matala, on the
island of Crete.
Antiochus III the
Great defeats...
